Interactive Notebook: Economics and Money

Notebook Features:
• 64 pages, about 8 inches x 11 inches
• Ages 10-14, grades 5-8
• Covers the beginnings of money, making smart financial decisions, and money management
• Helps students record, store, and organize information for review/test prep
• Correlated to state standards

Hands-On Learning: The Economics and Money Interactive Notebook helps 5th-8th graders create their own social studies resource. Students strengthen their financial knowledge and creative and organizational skills through interactive learning.

What’s Included: The 64-page social studies book features multiple lessons and units of study focusing on economics and money through interactive content. Students record, store, and organize essential information that is useful for test prep.

Correlated To State Standards: The standards-based notebook teaches social studies through topics and lessons such as money in the US, our country’s tax system, and making thoughtful financial decisions.

Benefits Of Interactive Notebooks: Students are encouraged to be creative, use color, and work with interactive content to gain a greater understanding of the topics covered, and become active participants in their own learning journey.

Why Mark Twain Media: Designed by leading educators, Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing captivating, supplemental books and resources in a wide range of subjects for middle- and upper-grade classroom success.

Interactive Notebook: Economics and Money is designed to allow students in grades five through eight to become active participants in their own learning by creating an interactive notebook. The instructions given in the book lay out an easy-to-follow plan for setting up, creating, and maintaining an interactive notebook for the study of the economic and monetary systems of the United States. Once completed, the notebook becomes a great resource for reviewing and studying for tests. The 19 lessons contained in Interactive Notebook: Economics and Money cover six units of study: The Beginning of Money, Money in the United States, Making Economic Decisions, The Economy, Taxes, and Money Management. This interactive approach to diagraming economic concepts gives students many opportunities to utilize models and demonstrate their knowledge through artistic creation, labeling, and verbal explanation. Students are encouraged to be creative, use color, and work with manipulatives to gain a greater understanding of the topics covered. •Helps students record, store, and organize essential information •Serves as a resource for review and test prep •Involves both right-brain and left-brain activities for processing new information •Correlated to current national and state standards